Good morning. I am in the market for a new media center computer. I have never built one, but will be giving it a shot. Here is my anticipated usage: Mostly for photoshop, internet, TIVO, office, light gaming (might get heavy), and editing / burning dvd's. I am thinking 2.8 p4 northwood, but am not locked in at this time. My question is: It seems like an onboard firewire gets me a very nice motherboard. I don't necessarily need or want to pay for RAID, LAN, or some other high-end options. Would you spend $125 for a board with firewire, or would I be better off getting a lower end motherboard and getting a pci firewire card when I finaly get a digital camcorder. Can you use the front firewire ports on a case if you have a pci card?
Here is my not-built-yet system so far. I am on a budget of under $1000 US bucks, and would like to be closer to $800. I have monitor, OS, printer, keyboard, mouse, speakers.
ASUS 865PE Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU, Model "P4P800 Deluxe" $126
ATI AIW RADEON 9600 Video Card, 128MB DDR, 128-bit, CATV/Video Out/Video In, 8X AGP, Model "ALL-IN-WONDER 9600" -RETAIL $170
Intel Pentium 4/ 2.8C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading Technology - Retail $185
Corsair Value Select 184 Pin 256MB DDR PC-3200 - OEM 2 of them $96
Western Digital Special Edition 120GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model WD1200JB, OEM Drive Only $94
Not sure what DVD burner, case, power supply, I will get. What do you think?
Here is my not-built-yet system so far. I am on a budget of under $1000 US bucks, and would like to be closer to $800. I have monitor, OS, printer, keyboard, mouse, speakers.
ASUS 865PE Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU, Model "P4P800 Deluxe" $126
ATI AIW RADEON 9600 Video Card, 128MB DDR, 128-bit, CATV/Video Out/Video In, 8X AGP, Model "ALL-IN-WONDER 9600" -RETAIL $170
Intel Pentium 4/ 2.8C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading Technology - Retail $185
Corsair Value Select 184 Pin 256MB DDR PC-3200 - OEM 2 of them $96
Western Digital Special Edition 120GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model WD1200JB, OEM Drive Only $94
Not sure what DVD burner, case, power supply, I will get. What do you think?
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